Investigative Committee for the Samara Region: “The explosion in Samara was committed for nationalist reasons”

January 13, 2011 years acting Head of the Investigative Committee of the TFR for the Samara Region Yuri Sliva at a press conference said that a resident of Syzran, who was detained on suspicion of organizing an explosion at a clothing market in Samara in June 2011, “were nationalist motives.

"At arrested had nationalist motives, the case is being investigated. He and his accomplice were involved in similar crimes in other regions,” Y.Sliva said at a press conference.

December 30, 2011 of the year it was reported that a 23-year-old resident was detained in the Samara region Syzran Alexander Mityushkin, who is suspected of involvement in the manufacture and laying improvised explosive devices. In particular, according to the investigation, he on the territory of the clothing market in Samara on June 14, 2011, laid an explosive device. It did not work completely, one person received minor injuries - Kyrgyz citizen.

In addition, the detainee tried to use in Penza a similar device on December 4 on the eve of the elections to the State Duma. It was discovered by the police, and A. Mityushkin arrested.

Also arrested his alleged accomplice is a 25-year-old native of the Ulyanovsk region.

Sources

• The June explosion at the market in Samara has a nationalist background - a consequence // Interfax. 2011. January 13.